Aspirin Might Counter Side Effects of Cox-2 Painkillers
...facturers of Vioxx were asked by the Texas Jury to pay $253.5 million as compensation // to Mrs. Ernst. Over 5 years, about 20 million people worldwide took Vioxx before Merck stopped selling the drug in September 2004, after a clinical trial found irrefutable evidence that Vioxx had heart risks compare...Researchers at Cornell University as been reported using research fund by false claims
... Cornell’s Weill Medical College in July agreed to pay the federal government $4.4 million to settle the charges levied by the US Attorney. Kyriakie Sarafoglou, researcher at the center, first notified the NIH about problems at the center in 2003. She complained against Weill dean Antonio Gotto, and th...Dr Reddy’s Strikes Deal With Rheoscience For Type 2 Diabetes Dru
...the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Dr Reddy's will pay Rheoscience a pre-determined amount towards its share of development costs. According to a statement from Dr Reddy's, Rheoscience will retain marketing rights for the European Union and China while Dr Reddy's will retain marketing rights for the US a...Merck and Takeda to collaborate in the sale of Cancer drug Matuzumab
...e benefits from the sale of Matuzumba. Takeda will pay 60 million euros to Merck with an addition of royalty. "Merck KGaA and Takeda Pharmaceutical have entered into a co-development and co-commercialization agreement for Merck's Matuzumab," the German company said in a statement. Matuzumab was develop...Worlds Largest Cord Blood Bank to be started in India
... the donor’s family must give informed consent and pay a one time fee of about $280. In return the bank will provide stem cells free to the family when needed. Potential customers are families with inherited blood disorders like Thalassemia. Histostem claims the cord blood is also marketable as a stem ce...Bird Flu Survivor Recounts her ‘hell
...so exhausted I did not have the energy to speak or pay attention to anything. I felt as if I had been running for days or years and I could not breathe.' It took over eight days before she started making some recovery. Now after three months, Mrs. Thongchan has fully recovered and is able to talk about...Generic Drugs Usage In US Can Save $20 Billion – Express Script Surve
...ly $60 less than a brand name drug. Consumers also pay a lower co-payment for generic medications, saving $10 or more per prescription on average compared to branded medications. Express Scripts, Inc. is a US based company which has studied and examined six major drug-therapy classes and was based on a ...Acid Reflux Increases Risk Of Esophagus Cancer
...l School. "If you have chronic reflux, you need to pay attention, and if you have reflux and you have trouble swallowing, weight loss or bleeding, you should see a doctor. Those are alarm or early-warning signs." There have been studies, which say that aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory dru...AIDS Threat Aggravated Due To Sale of Blood by Drug Addicts in Cambodia
...a new way of marketing their blood to hospitals to pay for their habits. Health experts warn that if this practice is not curbed in time, it would serve as a severe threat to the country's gains in fighting HIV/AIDS.// So far, there has been no report of spread of the deadly infection by blood transfus...Scientists Seek New Ways To Grow Hair On Bald Pates
... stem cells, cell growth and gene therapy that may pay off someday in new treatments for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's. "The idea of growing hair on a bald scalp is only of moderate interest," Sinclair said in a telephone interview. "If we find the cure for baldness we're not going to stop study...Mixed Opinion Regarding Common Medical And Engineering Entrance Test
...nterested to take up the test would be required to pay a sum of Rs.1000 towards examination fee charges. Associations of private professional colleges in Andhra and Maharashtra have however voiced their resistance against the examination plan and have even issued a statement saying that they do not for...Organ Scandals Compensation And The Aftermath
...amages in excess of £3.6 million and the NHS is to pay just under £1.7 million plus VAT in respect of the claimants' legal costs. "We hope it has brought a sense of closure to the bereaved families in what has been a profoundly distressing experience for them."That case led to Dick van Velsen, the pro...Study Suggests Filtering Out Useless Information To Enhance Memory
...elieve that being 'scatterbrained' is the price we pay for a hectic modern life in which we are often overworked and inundated with information, and recommend attentional training to improve one's ability to bounce irrelevant information from awareness. The researchers believe the results could have bro...Children Are Indifferent To Obesity
...r, especially as those who are thus afflicted also pay taxes. The primary care trusts of the area have declared that operations will not be conducted on people who have a Body Mass Index of 30....India Needs To Pay More Attention To Detecting Cancer
India has to pay more attention to early detection and prevention of cancer, as it is taking a heavy toll in terms of human lives//, according to experts participating in the ongoing International Congress on Women, Work and Health (WWH-2005) in the country. 'Around...Doctors Resign from Hospital for Bhopal Gas Victims
...d Research Center resigned. The doctors wanted a pay hike. The hospital gets around // 1,000 victims visit for treatment daily. Run by a trust, the BMHRC was set up as a super specialty hospital in 2001. Apart from the survivors of the gas victims, it also treats private patients. The Essential Servi...‘Train The Trainers’ Health programme Inaugurate
...a - Diet during Pregnancy: Pregnant women should pay special attention to their diets. Demand for nutrientsincreases during pregnancy to help the growing fetus. <a href='../Patients/PatientInfo/pregnancyanddiet_nutrients.htm'>www.medindia.net/Patients/ PatientInfo/pregnancyanddiet_nutrients.ht...Breast cancer patient lost her case
Deborah Carney a breast cancer patient has to pay thousands of dollars as a compensation to her doct...over has asked the family of the patient Carney to pay compensation to Dr Newton for defaming him. Carney was earlier told by the doctor to have a look at ...Students wants to extent Tution waiver in Ontario
...announced that from next year the students have to pay their tution fees and he said that// the quality of education would be increased in all the schools. The students in protest to this announcement has posted thousands of postcards to their Premier Dalton McGuinty requesting him to extend the Tution w......nd departure. They say that they cannot manage to pay for the malls and other costly hang outs. They also can’t sit for long hours in the sea shore as it creates problems with the police. Other hang outs like parks, lakes and resorts are very far of from the city and after long hours of work it is im...